12/11/2022
Often, thick concrete slabs are floated on building rooftops to help quiet the building spaces directly below from noisy rooftop equipment. As one can imagine, this is quite costly, and the additional mass results in the need to beef up the structural members down to foundation, further increasing project time and costs. Vibro-Acoustic consultants approach is to analyze each case and recommend solutions that is not an “overdesign”. In fact, in one such recent project, we found the typical floating floor (recommended by another consultant), was not needed, and time and money could be saved by adding less mass to the rooftop. Vibro-acoustic consultants’ engineered solution resulted in significant cost savings to the project.